It seems like using an upvote/downvote system akin to Reddit and Hacker News would make more sense for this goal. Allow all viewers to determine the quality of

It seems like using an upvote/downvote system akin to Reddit and Hacker News would make more sense for this goal. Allow all viewers to determine the quality of a comment, not just the person who posted the original tweet. Everything we've observed the last few years shows that we should be democratizing discourse on social media, not further funneling the power of the conversation into fewer hands. Do you really want extremist twitter accounts to be able to hide all dissenting replies?